Referendum and territorial claims as a justification of annexation : Crimea casus.

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Many people justify annexation of Crimea by the Russian president because of the historical reasons. They say, that Crimea was always Russian and that people who lived there speak and feel Russians. All of those claims is partially truth. Fact is that in some moment of history Crimea was Russian. Also people there speaks Russian and many of them feel that they are in fact Russians…

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Even if Crimeans feel like being Russians, they do not necessarily wanted to become part of Russia. Despite the calls that “Ukrainian Nazists” persecute Crimean Russians vast majority of them in a year before the war, wanted to stay in Ukraine. There is even more – the tendency in two years period was showing decreasing number of those who wanted to join Russia – from 33 to 23 percent. In the same time for autonomy, but still in the Ukraine, voted over half…